🌱Mastodon tips and tricks
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Videos That Help Explain the Fediverse
The Interface
- ❤️ Likes are for the poster to let them know you saw/liked their post.
- 🚀Boosts make the post appear in your timeline so that your followers can see it.
- 🔖Bookmarks are a kind of "to do" list just for you.
- 📃Lists are for grouping
- #️⃣ You can follow hashtags (which is super useful!)
Tips
- Fedi.Tips 'This is an unofficial non-technical guide to using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. '
- Roma Komarov's My Mastodon Starter Pack
- Mastodon Tips and Tricks
- How to Set Up Filters on Mastodon
- Mastodon Migration Blog 'Sharing advice and assisting with the great migration.'
Apps
- Elk (PWA) - Elk is a Progressive Web App (PWA) meaning that is runs in a browser and can be "installed" on any device that a modern browser runs on.
- ⭐Phanpy - (my app of choice) Phanpy is another Progressive Web App (PWA) that is a refreshing new take on how to present a social feed to a user. One of the main things it does different is the way it presents Boosts. It lets you follow accounts that boost a lot with out overwhelming the rest of your feed.
- Tusky (Android) 'Tusky is a lightweight client for Mastodon, a free and open-source social network server. It supports all Mastodon features, like photos, videos, lists, custom emojis and is designed according to material guidelines.'
- Statuzer 'Multi-accounts, multi-columns Mastodon client'
Tools
- MastoGizmos - Mastodon Tools and Searches 'This web site is a collection of one-page JavaScript apps offering new ways to search and explore Mastodon's content.'
- Posty 'Using this tool, you can extract your Mastodon archive and create a static site that can be hosted anywhere.'
Browser Extensions
- ⭐Graze for Chrome based browsers 'Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, bookmark, and reply for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.' This extension is highly recommended. It fixes this issue. Also available for Firefox.